English Writing for the Sciences
July 2, 2007
In-class Exercise
The following are the titles of papers from Nature and Science. Find titles with similar characteristics.
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The Glass-to-Glass Transition and Its End Point in a
Copolymer Micellar System
Enhanced Upper Tropical Tropospheric COS: Impact
on the Stratospheric Aerosol Layer
Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa
Carotenoid Modulation of Immune Function and
Sexual Attractiveness in Zebra Finches
Spreading of nanofluids on solids
Homogeneous climate variability across East
Antarctica over the past three glacial cycles
Charge-Induced Reversible Strain in a Metal
Hidden complexity in the mechanical properties of
titin
Recognition of Paleoearthquakes on the Puente Hills
Blind Thrust Fault, California
Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species
abundance distributions
Reduced mixing from the breaking of internal waves
in equatorial waters
Magmatic events can produce rapid changes in
hydrothermal vent chemistry
Global anisotropy and the thickness of continents
Ultrahigh-Density Nanowire Lattices and Circuits
A hidden pseudogap under the ‘dome’ of
superconductivity in electron-doped high-temperature
superconductors
A 23,000-Year Record of Surface Water pH and PCO2
in the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean
Low-mass relics of early star formation
Subsecond dopamine release promotes cocaine
seeking
Computational design of receptor and sensor proteins
with novel functions
A median redshift of 2.4 for galaxies bright at
submillimetre wavelengths
21 Axons Guided by Insulin Receptor in Drosophila
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Visual System
First-generation black-hole-forming supernovae and
the metal abundance pattern of a very iron-poor star
Experimental evidence that potassium is a substantial
radioactive heat source in planetary cores
Induction of Tumors in Mice by Genomic
Hypomethylation
Casting Metal Nanowires Within Discrete
Self-Assembled Peptide Nanotubes
Earliest known crown-group salamanders
The Aerodynamics of Free-Flight Maneuvers in
Drosophila
Universal scaling relations in food webs
Mediterranean Moisture Source for an Early-Holocene
Humid Period in the Northern Red Sea
Dissociative hydrogen adsorption on palladium
requires aggregates of three or more vacancies
Initiation and Synergistic Fibrillization of Tau and
Alpha-Synuclein
A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity
Cell fusion is the principal source of
bone-marrow-derived hepatocytes
Evidence for the Exposure of Water Ice on Titan's
Surface
Multifunctional Alloys Obtained via a
Dislocation-Free Plastic Deformation Mechanism
Deep roots of the Messinian salinity crisis
The Onset of Matter-Wave Amplification in a
Superradiant Bose-Einstein Condensate
Chromosomal Speciation and Molecular
Divergence—Accelerated Evolution in Rearranged
Chromosomes